MAGUEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does maguey mean? 

• MAGUEY (noun)
  The noun MAGUEY has 2 senses:

1. Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal

2. Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine

  Familiarity information: MAGUEY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGUEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Agave atrovirens; maguey

Hypernyms ("maguey" is a kind of...):

agave; American aloe; century plant (tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber)

Meronyms (substance of "maguey"):

pulque (fermented Mexican drink from juice of various agave plants especially the maguey)

mescal (a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant))

Holonyms ("maguey" is a member of...):

genus Agave (type genus of the Agavaceae; in some classifications considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Agave cantala; cantala; maguey

Hypernyms ("maguey" is a kind of...):

agave; American aloe; century plant (tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber)

Holonyms ("maguey" is a member of...):

genus Agave (type genus of the Agavaceae; in some classifications considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae)